One of Quanzhou's Traditional Dramas: Gaojia Opera

Gaojia Opera is popular in Minnan-speaking areas with Quanzhou as the center, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan areas, and overseas Chinese communities in southern Fujian in Southeast Asia. Gaojia opera has changed the habit of replacing drama with scenes and started to enter a new era of new plays and modern drama. Next, let's take a look at Quanzhou culture.

Gaojia Opera, also known as Ge Jia Opera, Jiujiao Opera, Dapan Opera and Tuban Opera, originated in Quanzhou, Fujian [1]. It originally originated from a costume parade in the rural areas of southern Fujian in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, in which Liangshan heroes were dressed up and martial arts skills were performed. It is a local opera with the widest broadcast area and the largest audience among various operas in southern Fujian. Its footprints spread all over the Fujian-speaking areas such as Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwan Province Province, and also spread to Nanyang, where overseas Chinese live in concentrated communities.

The repertoire of Gaojia Opera can be divided into three categories: atmospheric drama (court drama, martial arts drama), embroidered room drama and ugly drama, among which martial arts drama, ugly drama and case-solving drama are the most, and Shengdan drama is the least. There are more than 900 traditional plays, most of which are from Peking Opera, Puppet Show and Puppet Show, a few of which have absorbed Liyuan Opera, and some are created by artists based on historical novels and folklore. Originally, the roles of Gaojia Opera were only raw, Dan and ugly. Later, two colors were added: net, paste, outside, end, north (net) and miscellaneous, so that actors could follow the plot. Singing is also relatively free, there is no certain stage, and the performance time can be long or short.

Gaojia Opera uses "Nanqu", "puppet show" and folk tunes, and Nanqu is the main theme. The musical instruments used in Gaojia Opera can be divided into literature and military music. Accompaniment instruments are mainly wind music and suona (mainly pipa after liberation), in addition to flute, two strings and three strings. Percussion instruments and their percussion methods are the same as those in Beijing Opera, but the three links and the general are different from those in Beijing Opera. Double bell, bell lamp, etc. Be added to an ugly scene or a relaxed scene. After liberation, 195 1 established Quanzhou Popular Drama Club (1957 was changed to Quanzhou Gaojia Opera Troupe), 1954 participated in the East China Opera Exhibition, and "Peach Blossom" and "Sweeping Qin" won the script award and performance award.

On May 20th, 2006, Gaojia Opera was approved to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.